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  • September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
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  • October 2018 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital

By: Laura Huang and Sarah Mehta
Frustrated by an inability to convince existing venture capital firms to invest in companies led by women, people of color, and LGBT founders, Arlan Hamilton started her own firm, Backstage Capital, in 2015. Hamilton understood the untapped potential of companies run... View Details
Keywords: Black Leadership; LGBTQ; Women; People Of Color; Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Gender; Race
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  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

the official site. For more on the Women's Student Association, visit wsahbsclub.com. Taylor Clarkson Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 Being mixed is a experience shared by many, but discussed by few. My mother is Ukrainian, my father is Grenadian. As a mixed View Details
  • Web

Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Mentoring. Lumumba B. Seegars : Awarded Best Paper Based on a Dissertation by the Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division of the Academy of Management for “Sanctioned Radicals: Comparing Collective Organizing Around Race and... View Details
  • Web

Harvard Business School

corporate philanthropy, and social marketing. His books include: Developing the Afro-American Economy ; Moving Ahead: Black Managers in American Business ; The Wealth of Races (Editor); and Soul in Management: How African-American... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

’80s—moving it from the city streets to the suburban shopping center, standardizing the book-buying experience, and starting the familiar race to big, bigger, and biggest, and cheap, cheaper, and cheapest. By 1980, analysts were... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

pitcher throws the ball. How much would you expect the race of the umpire and the pitcher to determine the outcome of the call? That's the question Christopher A. Parsons, Harvard Business School visiting associate professor in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • 25 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

mostly one race are tipping the balance of integration among all firms, creating a less segregated workforce overall. “The turnover of organizations appears to have washed away progress on racial employment integration faster than such... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

objective, branch-level productivity measures, Ely said. In general, Ely added, companies such as the one they studied tend to take on one of three perspectives about diversity: 1. Discrimination and fairness perspective. The work groups aspire to being color blind, so... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

to prevent this apparent discrimination? In their paper “Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy,” the researchers note that the most obvious way to squelch racism on Airbnb is to squelch the ability to identify the race of guests or... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services
  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

that mentoring relationships are less likely to form across race than among people of the same race. But the positive approach would be to look at the research and say, 'Well, even though they may be rare, let's try to understand these... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

mortgage originations from 2012 to 2018 for loan performance data. They further parsed findings using US Census data and ZIP codes to match loan officers, mortgages, specific lenders, and applicants. The researchers matched first and last names and geographic data to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

12 percent less for rentals than nonblack hosts—even when the properties were equivalent in terms of location and quality. How did the researchers find out the race of each host? The same way potential guests do—they looked at the hosts'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • 13 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

the salience of ethnicity in a country like Kenya that has experienced significant recent racial tension—and may not necessarily be as strong in a country like the United States or France. Even so, these trends are worth keeping in mind in any context in which View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2023
  • Chapter

Ongoing Inclusion: African Americans in the Military

By: Hise O. Gibson, Morten G. Ender, Liat Shapiro and JooHee Han
Keywords: Inclusion; Military; Race; United States
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  • 20 Jun 2008
  • News

Risk and Reward

Like many horse racing fans, I was disappointed when Big Brown met defeat at the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7. After the bay colt’s impressive wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, railbirds were hopeful that he would be the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Flight Path

Above: Drone Racing League Founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski is having a magic moment. (photo by Jordan Hollender) Drone Racing League (DRL) founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski (MBA 2008) wants to be clear: He... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • Web

Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024

Non-Binary / Gender Queer / Another Gender 0% < 1% — — — International Citizenship 35% 39% 38% 37% 33% US Race / Ethnicity American Indian / Alaska Native 0% 0% 0% — — Asian / Asian American 25% 22% 24% 24% 19% Black / African American 8%... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2017
  • Cold Call Podcast

Black Business Leaders Series: The Entrepreneurship Behind Ebony Magazine

Keywords: Publishing